AND, If you already own any of these shorts, you'll automatically get a one dollar credit added to your RiffTrax account for each short you own instead. Tell your friends! It's a great way to introduce them to RiffTrax for only a buck.

Thanks to you, the Kickstarter community, we shattered RiffTrax Kickstarter records in 2016 when you helped us fund our Mystery Science Theater 3000 Reunion show. This year, we're headlining our Live show slate with one of our biggest names ever!... "Which is what," you're asking? Well, weirdly enough, we can't actually tell you until after our campaign is over. For now, we're simply calling it the...

SUPER SECRET MYSTERY SHOW!!!

The title will be revealed on the RiffTrax website on March 27th, and we promise it's going to be a fun one!

Along with with our friends at Fathom Events, we'll once again broadcast the ensuing hilarity into hundreds of movie theaters across America on August 17th. This comedy event of the year will be pure riffing heaven — and with your help we get to do it LIVE on the big screen! And tickets, when on sale, can be found HERE.

But First!

We're kicking off the season with a live show featuring one of our most requested titles of all time, SAMURAI COP, the story of a dumb, leather-jacketed, giant-mullet-wearing detective who sorta fights like a samurai but mostly tries to pick up women with the sophistication of a drunk frat boy!

We’ll riff this cult favorite LIVE on April 13th, 2017. And TICKETS are now on sale!

But that's not all!

Last year’s MST3K Reunion Show was such a success, we’re bringing back RiffTrax regulars, along with some special celebrity guest riffers for a Summer Shorts Beach Party – and YOU are invited! This amazing night of riffing and comedy will include: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett! PLUS confirmed special guest riffers Paul F. Tompkins, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl and Bridget Nelson, and some very funny yet-to-be-announced guests! It’ll be a summer-themed night of crazy riffed educational shorts culminating in a grand finale: a SUPER RIFF-A-PALOOZA with all the guests at once!

The Summer Shorts Beach Party will be filmed live in front of a big shorts-wearing beachball-tossing crowd on June 15th, 2017 at the Belcourt Theater in downtown Nashville – the Beach Capital of Tennessee, and simulcast to 700+ theaters all across the U.S.A. And tickets, when on sale, can be found HERE.

To fund this year of amazing RiffTrax Live events, we need your help. The cost to pull it all off is beyond doing on our own, but with a little help from our fans, we can make it happen. In exchange, we've come up with some exciting rewards and VIP packages just for you, including an exclusive Kickstarter backer shirt designed by Shirt.Woot superstar Adam Koford, aka ApeLad! Check out his design for last year's backer shirt:

Last year's Backer Shirt. This year's design will be revealed soon!

So friends, please join us once again and help us make another year of hilarious RiffTrax Live adventures possible: SAMURAI COP on April 13th; SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY on June 15th; and the SUPER SECRET MYSTERY TITLE on August 17th – all broadcast LIVE to hundreds of movie screens all over the USA.

With your help, this year could be the biggest one yet!

Help us make these shows a reality!

RiffTrax Live is a shared comedy experience that is best enjoyed with friends. RiffTrax, MST3K and comedy fans alike throughout America will meet up in theaters to enjoy the show. We hope to see you there, too!

WHO we are

The guys at RIFFTRAX have been providing hilarious movie commentary for years. First as writers and stars of the cult TV comedy show MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 – and then online since 2006, as RIFFTRAX. Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett have taken on movies both bad and not-so-bad – from TWILIGHT to oddities like FUN IN BALLOONLAND, with one and only one mission: to make them funny.

If you're still not familiar with us, check out this video for a little taste of what we do at RiffTrax:

Why we're on Kickstarter

In 2009 we did an experiment: a live show in Nashville, riffing the Ed Wood classic PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, simulcast to 500 movie theaters around the U.S.A. It was ragingly funny, and RiffTrax Live was born! Since then, we've done over 20 more live simulcast shows, including: "MANOS" THE HANDS OF FATE; the sorpnl-filled D-movie BIRDEMIC; the bug-infested classic STARSHIP TROOPERS; the SyFy sensation SHARKNADO; an MST3K CAST REUNION SHOW and many more, most of which were only made possible thanks to the generous support of the Kickstarter community.

Movie rights and film remastering cost a decent chunk of change, and the production costs for the Live Shows themselves are crazy high, especially getting the rights from SECRET STUDIO for the CAN'T TELL YOU YET title - so to have this madness make any economic sense, we really need your help. We have our deal with Fathom Events locked in, we have the dates reserved for the shows, and we have a lot of great stuff ready to be riffed for three nights of hilarious entertainment – the rest is up to you!

What do YOU get out of this deal?

Tons of great stuff!! For starters, backers at every level get first dibs on tickets to see all of these live shows in person – including the August show, which is sure to sell out. That's an EXCLUSIVE advance purchasing window just for backing us at any level on Kickstarter!

We've got awesome rewards for every level of backer. Check out the massive list on the right to see all the goodies up for grabs!

Unfortunately, while we can’t give away tickets to the individual movie theaters as rewards, we CAN give you digital downloads of two of them: the SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY and SAMURAI COP shows, along with the other exclusive rewards created just for backers. In the past, these have included behind-the-scenes videos, never-before-seen shorts, digital downloads of live show scripts, and more! All that, plus the priceless warm fuzzy feeling of knowing YOU helped make putting RiffTrax on the Big Screen possible.

We're also offering some fantastic VIP packages that include meeting the RiffTrax gang in Nashville, tickets for the best seats in the house, getting your picture in the credits, and even being able to write a riff that will be used in a Live Show script!

Wondering what goes on at our VIP meet-and-greets? Check out this video from last year's Reunion Show gathering:

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What if we get extra money, past our goal?

With your help, we’ve surpassed our goals in each of our four previous Kickstarter campaigns. And just like with those projects, all of the extra money we raise will go towards securing the rights for showing the movies in theaters, the top-notch production of the live shows, making possible some amazing celebrity guests for the Beach Party show, and to create all those awesome rewards!

We’ll be up front here: making these shows happen costs more than our base goal. That’s just the reality of it. If we’re able to raise extra money, those additional funds go right back into putting on the best production we can.

With all that being said... THANK YOU! We have the best fans in the world, and we know how lucky we are. This year will mark our 25th RiffTrax Live show - we couldn't have done it without our fans, and we sincerely thank you for your support over these many years. We can't wait to make you laugh even more during 2017 – so join us for RiffTrax Live!

Risks and challenges

The biggest challenge to this Kickstarter is that we are unable to do the most obvious thing: pre-sell actual movie theater tickets to all the live shows. The reason for this is that we can't control which theaters will pick up the show, and on top of the fact that they all use different systems, the logistics of pre-selling tickets to all the various theater chains is pretty much impossible.

But we ARE able to offer digital versions of at least TWO of the shows - the SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY Show and SAMURAI COP - as rewards, along with the other fun rewards available at all levels.

In the end, all we want to do is provide you with some great laugh-out-loud evenings, this year going even bigger than before. Thanks for being part of MST and RiffTrax history!

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SPREADING THE WORD!

Just want to say "OHAI, RiffTrax" and show your support for live riffing? You don't have to break the bank to get cool stuff! Even backing us for $1 will nab you up to 10 FREE RiffTrax Shorts, plus any of the FREE STRETCH GOALS as they get unlocked! Thanks for spreading the word and helping us make RiffTrax Live history!

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THANK YOU PAGE

All of the above, plus your personal name personally thanked on a special thank-you page at RiffTrax.com! AND the satisfaction that you were part of our amazing year of Live Shows. ALSO as a Kickstarter backer at any level, we try to give exclusive perks during the year - like secret passwords for early access to Live Show tickets whenever possible including the 2017 shows.

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SHORTS COLLECTION

All of the above, plus TWO NEVER-BEFORE-RIFFED SHORTS. Digital download of two never-before-riffed shorts made just for you our Kickstarter backers! Plus your name personally thanked on a special thank-you page at RiffTrax.com!

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SHORTS COLLECTION PLUS ONE

Everything at the $10 level plus a certificate for a digital download of ANY FULL-LENGTH RIFFTRAX MP3 of your choice, from our existing catalogue. A GREAT value since our new App will sync your MP3 with the movie automatically using magic!!!

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BEACH PARTY SHOW DOWNLOAD PACKAGE!

Everything from above plus a Digital download of the SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY RiffTrax Live Show performed in June. It will be delivered on the SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY Digital Release Date (approximately 60 days after that Live Show.)

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BEACH PARTY + SAMURAI COP SUPER PACKAGE!

Everything from above PLUS you ALSO get a digital download of the RIFFTRAX LIVE: SAMURAI COP show to be performed in April 2017! Show downloads will be delivered on their respective Digital Release Dates (approximately 60 days after each Live Show.)

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TWO LIVE SHOWS + DIGITAL GOODIE PACK!

Everything in the $50.00 reward package plus a digital goodie pack. Includes, at a minimum, cool stuff like a digital signed copy of a rehearsal script, digital live show avatars, digital signed thank-you photo from Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy, plus more!

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ALL DIGITAL PACKAGE

You get everything from above, plus ALL digital rewards unlocked from the Stretch Goals for the $80 and higher tiers. This currently includes a FREE VOD of Final Justice and a RiffTrax of Game of Thrones' "Red Wedding" Episode.

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ALL ABOVE + RIFFTRAX LIVE SHOW POSTER

Everything in the above rewards package plus... an awesome Poster from one of the Live Shows! This will be a full size 27x40 poster - the same Fathom Events poster we use for advertising the show in movie theaters!

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YOUR NAME ONSCREEN

Everything from the above reward package plus: YOUR name in the credits at the end of the SUMMER SHORTS RiffTrax Live show in June! IMMORTALITY is yours - especially since this Show will be available into eternity as a digital download! (Must have your name to RiffTrax no later than APRIL 30th to be included - we'll email you with details after the Kickstarter is over.)

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YOUR FACE ON THE BIG SCREEN.

Everything in the above rewards package plus... your name AND PHOTO at the end of the SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY RiffTrax Live show in June. So much YOU! (Must have your approved name and photo to RiffTrax no later than April 30th to be included - we'll email you with details after the Kickstarter is over.)

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KEVIN WILL WRITE A JINGLE FOR YOU!

Everything in the $250 rewards package PLUS Kevin Murphy himself will personally write a jingle for you - an actual commercial-style jingle promoting yourself or a friend or whatever you want jingled - pancakes, zippers, chinstrap beards - they’ll be about 15 seconds in length and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

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Script Review with Bill!

Bill will read and analyze your script then do a one-hour private phone consultation with you at a mutually convenient time. Please note: limited to scripts, not novels etc.; maximum 120 pages, but will consider slightly raising that if approved in advance. Also does not promise any kind of future help with the script, limited to this one hour only, and must be redeemed within one year of the end of this Kickstarter campaign. Also includes everything from the $250 tier.

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WRITE A RIFF - SAMURAI COP SHOW

Everything in the $250 rewards package PLUS you will get to write a riff for the SAMURAI COP LIVE SHOW in April. We'll give you the scene and space for the joke, and you get to write your own comedy gold which will be performed by Mike, Kevin or Bill during the Live Show. You will even get a "Kickstarter Guest Writer" credit in the end credits of the show, and you will be mentored by the RiffTrax writers to make sure all goes smoothly. (Riff must be approved by RiffTrax.)

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WRITE A RIFF - SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY

Everything in the $250 rewards package PLUS you will get to write a riff for the SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY in June. We'll give you the scene and space for the joke, and you get to write your own comedy gold which will be performed by Mike, Kevin or Bill during the Live Show. You will even get a "Kickstarter Guest Writer" credit in the end credits of the show, and you will be mentored by the RiffTrax writers to make sure all goes smoothly. (Riff must be approved by RiffTrax.)

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WRITE A RIFF - SECRET MYSTERY SHOW

Everything in the $250 rewards package PLUS you will get to write a riff for the SUPER SECRET MYSTERY TITLE LIVE SHOW in August. We'll give you the scene and space for the joke, and you get to write your own comedy gold which will be performed by Mike, Kevin or Bill during the Live Show. You will even get a "Kickstarter Guest Writer" credit in the end credits of the show, and you will be mentored by the RiffTrax writers to make sure all goes smoothly. (Riff must be approved by RiffTrax.)

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AUTOGRAPHED SCRIPTS BEACH PARTY SHOW!

Everything in the $250 rewards package plus: the actual scripts used by the riffers during the SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY Live Show, autographed to you personally from Mike, Kevin, Bill, Bridget, Mary Jo and maybe even other guest riffers from the show!

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SUMMER SHORTS SHOW VIP GUEST OF HONOR!

Everything in the $250 rewards package plus: attend the SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY Live Show in June as guest of RiffTrax! Tickets in the first 3 rows for you and a guest at the Belcourt Theater in Nashville. You will be onscreen and thanked as part of the show. You'll attend the rehearsal the day of the show, and get a personal "Happy Hour Meet & Greet" the day before with Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, along with fellow guests Mary Jo Pehl and Bridget Nelson (and maybe even more celeb riffers). You and your guest will each get unique collectible VIP badges and lanyards, plus a Special RiffTrax Goodie Bag. [NOTE: you must provide your own travel to and lodging in Nashville for a June 15th show.]

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MYSTERY SHOW VIP GUEST OF HONOR!

Everything in the $250 rewards package plus: attend the SUPER SECRET MYSTERY SHOW in August as a guest of RiffTrax! Tickets in the first 3 rows for you and a guest at the Belcourt Theater in Nashville. You will be onscreen and thanked as part of the show. You'll attend the rehearsal the day of the show, and get a personal "Happy Hour Meet & Greet" the day before with Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, and the RiffTrax crew! You and your guest will each get unique collectible VIP badges and lanyards, plus a Special RiffTrax Goodie Bag. [NOTE: you must provide your own travel to and lodging in Nashville for an August 17th show.]